Wichita eagle., 1887-09-10
The total assessed valuation of all the

The total assessed valuation of all the
railroad property of the state for 1886 was
| $32, ,453 776 68; for 1887 the total was $41.-
! 554 346 01-an increase during the year OF
So, 100, $50 SO.
The main track of the A., T. & s. F. Co.
is assessed at $500 per mile and the aver
age per mile of all its property, including
buildings, rolling stock, ETC., is $11 ,4s7 Is
per mile. The Atchison section of the
Missouri Pacific track is assessed at IS, 00t
per mile; its Nebraska extension at s., 600
and the Central Branch at So, 500. Includ-
ing buildings. rolling stock, ETC.. the
assessed value of the Atchison section OF
the Missouri Pacific is so. $40 12 per mile
of its Nebraska extension, $6,2 SO pc,
mile, and of the Central Branch, $6.95S 81
per mile. The Kansas Pacific main track
is assessed at $500 per mile; the Southern
Kansas at S. 200, and the Fort Scott s
Gulf road at $1,000. The lowest valuation
put upon any railway lines Is $4,0OG pei
mile, not including buildings and rolling
stock.
In 1886, only sixty four railroad compa
nies were assessed; for 1887, the assessment
rolls name eighty seven. OF these sixteen
are A., T. & s. F. lines, thirty are Missouri
Pacific lines; nine are Union Pacific lines
seven are the Fort Scott s. Gulf Co.'S lines,
and four are the B. s. NJ Cos lines.
For 1886, railroad property was assessed
in only seventy five counties; for 1887. as
sessment of railroad property are made in
eighty four of the 106 counties of Kansas.
And since the date of the assessment,
March /, 1887, railroad lines have beer
extended into or through nine additional
counties, so that today all the counties Of
Kansas ex xcept twelve have railway facil
tiles.
Sumner county has the largest railway
mileage, POI .(3 miles; and also the largest
assessment, s1,177,212 56. Twenty one
counties, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler
Cowley, Crawford, Franklin, Greenwood,
johnson, Labette, Leavenworth. Lyon,
Marshall, Montgomery, Usage, Reno, Rice,
Saline, Sedgwick. shawnee, Sumner and
Wilson, each have over 100 miles of railway
lines within their borders. Butler county
ranks next to Sumner in mileage, having
154 SO miles; and Sedgwick comes next,
with 154 81 miles In two counties, Sum.
ner and Shawnee, the valuation of railway
property exceeds one million dollars.
Acthison county has S3 4S miles,
valued at $71s,s75.9O. Dolphin coun.
ty has 92.1S miles; Brown,
97.77 miles, Nemaha, Ia miles; Jack.
son, 76 26 miles; and Jefferson, 60 "a
miles. The assessments for the present
year, however, do not include the L., N &
s. road in Atchison county, nor the K. G.
& N. road in Jefferson county.
Assessments on nine railway lines are
made in two counties, Crawford and La
bette; on eight In three counties, Atchi-
son, Montgomery and Sumner; on seven
in five counties, Cherokee, Cloud, Coffey,
Leavenworth and Usage; on six In seven
counties, Franklin, Miami, Reno, Saline,
Sedgwick, Shawnee and Wyandotte; on
five in twelve counties, Anderson. Bar.
ton, Bourbon, Butler. Cowley, Harper,
johnson, Lyon, Neosho. Rice. Washing
ton and wilson; on four In twelve coun-
ties, Allen, Douglas, Elk, Jefferson,
Kingman, Linn, Marshall, Mcpherson,
Osborne, Republic, Riley and Woodson;
on three in eleven counties, Brown, Chau
tauqua, Davis, Doniphan, Ellsworth,
Greenwood, Harvey, Jackson, Marion,
Morris and Nemaha; and on two in four
teen counties, Barber, Clay, Dickinson,
Mitchell, Norton, Ottawa, Paw
nee, Pratt, Phillips, Pottawatomie, Rush,
Stafford and Wabaunsee. So that sixty
six counties each had, on the 1st of March
last, two or more lines of railway within
their borders.
The latest report Of railway building,
during the year 1887, credits Kansas with
q total of oyer 1900 miles Nearly
the whole of this mileage-prob
ably 1000 miles-has been con.
structed since the 1st of March last, when
the official reports were made to the state
board of railroad assessors. At that time
Kansas had 6. 955 miles of completed rail
road within her borders. We now have,
therefore, fully 1856 miles, and before the
close of the present year will have over
8 600 miles of railway. No other state in
the Union can beat this record On the
first of March, 1885, the total railway
mileage of he state, including side tracks,
was 4, 725 miles On the first of March,
1887, the aggregate was G, ,955 miles, an in
crease of $50 in two years. or at the
rate OF 1,100 miles per year We shall
fully maintain this record during the year
ending March /, 1888.